“I feel that we should stop wasting our time trying to please the supernatural and concentrate on improving the welfare of human beings. I think that we should use our energy and our initiative to solve our problems, and stop relying on prayer and wishful thinking. If we have faith in ourselves, we won’t have to have faith in gods.”

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me, that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy.” They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

—John Lennon

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“I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.”—Edith Sitwell

If you believe in trying to make the best of the finite number of years we have on this planet (while not making it any worse for anyone else), think that pride and self-righteousness are the cause of most conflict and negativity, and are humbled by the vastness and mystery of the Universe, then I’m the same religion as you.

—Sal Khan of the Khan Academy

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“I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.”—Edith Sitwell

The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. - George Bernard Shaw

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. - Susan B. Anthony

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Question authority and think for yourself. Big Brother does not know best and never has.

Thanks Free. BIg Paine fan. I only wish that there was a statue to him in D.C. Wait a minute, a thought just flashed through my aging mind, what if all of the atheist orgs. came together to push for some kind of Paine memorial in D.C? What do you think? Or maybe I asked that question here before. Anyway, it’s a thought.